Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Eaglehill (clonmore Ed), County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eaglehill (clonmore Ed)
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.85356, -6.55837
- SMR number
- CW004-055001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 25 May 2011
Complex of two oval hut sites and small field. Hut A (CW004-055001-), defined by collapsed boulder wall (max. H 2 courses) with possible entrance at NW (max. diam. 3m). Hut B (CW004-055003-), c. 25m to ESE of A, defined by collapsed stone wall (max. diam. 2.5m). Poorly defined rectilinear enclosure (CW004-055002-) (dims. c 3m x c 13m), probably haggard constructed adjacent to face of outcrop, 3m SE of Hut B. See also metal working (CW004-051---- and CW004-052----) and hut site (CW004-043----).
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.